This failed attempt to make a movie star of singer Wayne Newton saw him playing Mark Jonah Winters, a hitchhiking vagrant fruit picker accused of…
Browsing: Movies – 1960s
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Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning account of Guido Anselmi, an overworked movie director (Marcello Mastroianni) crossing the line between reality and fantasy. Guido (pictured above) is spiritually paralysed…
Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) is an eccentric Medfield College professor who is so engrossed in conducting experiments in his garage/lab, he forgets to turn up…
“Like a punch in the chest. Put together breath by breath, look by look, lust by lust, lie by lie. A compelling film”. The complex…
Middle-class office workers Genna (Judy Wood), Chickie (Pat Barrington) and Fran (Lila Cranston Lamont) leave work on Friday afternoon and become weekend bikers, accompanied to…
This sweet-tempered send-up of Civil War heroics from Destry Rides Again director George Marshall has a company of useless Union misfits sent out of the…
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft…
Pierre (Chicago burlesque comic Billy Falbo) finds himself in situations where he ends up seeing naked women everywhere (in a series of short, silent skits)…
A rather forgettable Peter Sellers comedy about an ingenious criminal who becomes a movie director as a front to pull off a gold heist. Italy’s…
Disillusioned artist Brad Morahan (James Mason, who also co-produced the film) escapes New York for his Australian homeland seeking solitude on an island on the…
This is, notionally, the biographical account of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II. But the movie’s historical…
John Wayne as Colonel Davy Crockett leads the futile defence in 1836 of the famous fort in the town of San Antonio, Texas, against the onslaught of the Mexican…
“I think if you were to spend all your time with birds, you’d begin to feel you’re going a bit doolally. It’s my opinion there…
A psychiatrist (director Donn Greer) begins narrating the sad tale of Alice Trenton (Sheri Jackson), a nice college student who gets in with the wrong…
Despising the Disney take, Jonathan Miller set out to de-anthropomorphise the story of Alice In Wonderland by returning to Dodgson’s mathematical logic and Victorian values for…
Folk singer Arlo (Arlo Guthrie, who does quite well in his film debut), a talented young man of exceptionally undistinguished appearance, is waiting to be…
Twenty-something Berry-Berry Willart (Warren Beatty) has left his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, to get away from his overbearing mother Annabell (Angela Lansbury) and alcoholic intellectual…
In his early days as a saintly college boy, a mythological All-American, too full of his own goodness to be true, Pat Boone presented an…
Who is the mysterious woman seen running from a swanky Palm Beach Hotel, clad only in a bath towel? Is she the second mistress of…
Part bawdy peek-a-boo romp, part kitchen-sink drama, this box-office hit features then-rising star Victor Henry as Ginger, a twenty-year-old self-employed window cleaner whose womanising is…